Aussie veteran Patty Mills will return to the NBA for a sixteenth season after reportedly signing with the Utah Jazz.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski stories Mills, 36, and the Jazz have agreed to a one-year, totally assured $3.3 million deal (AUD $5M) for the 2024/25 season.
It’ll see Mills reunite with coach Will Hardy, who shared six seasons collectively when Hardy was an assistant with the San Antonio Spurs underneath Gregg Popovich from 2015 to 2021.
Mills spent 10 seasons on the Spurs all up, taking part in in two NBA Finals and profitable the 2014 championship in his most recognised run within the NBA.
His position within the NBA has diminished in recent times together with taking part in a mixed 32 video games for the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Warmth final season — averaging 4.2 factors and capturing underneath 40 per cent from three-point vary for the primary time in his profession.
However he stays a extremely revered locker room veteran who can plug in and play minutes as a harmful perimeter shooter with a scoring spark, whereas his management shall be invaluable to a youthful Jazz facet.
Mills, who was traded thrice final low season, joins his fifth NBA workforce after stops on the Portland Path Blazers, Spurs, Brooklyn Nets, Hawks and Warmth.
He’s appeared in a complete 892 common season NBA video games.
The beloved Aussie is coming off a productive Olympics marketing campaign for the Boomers, which is predicted to be his look for the inexperienced and gold.
Having constantly ascended his sport on the nationwide stage, Mills was ranked second for the Boomers in scoring in Paris, averaging 16.5 factors per sport with 2.3 triples at 40.9 per cent capturing from the arc.
It consists of Mills placing up a game-high 26 factors on 11-of-21 capturing in Australia’s 95-90 extra time loss to eventual bronze medallist Serbia within the quarterfinals.